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to Y AGE TO SENEGAL, 
and told them to hide themselves without delay, as the Wadelims 
were coming from ail parts to carry off the slaves and treasure. 
The talba profited by this advice, and they all hid themselves be- 
hind some hillocks of sand, where tliey remained till some Moors 
€>f the other tribe, who were interested in preserving their plmi- 
der, came to reinforce their comrades. A guide went before 
the î'reîîchmen, and pointed out to them the road they had to 
take, by erecting at certain distances little pyramids of stones. 
This precaution was necessary in order to avoid the outskirts of 
ihe enemy, particularly those of the Wadelims. Indeed, these 
people are so avaricious, that whether friends or enemies they 
are equally to be dreaded. At break of day all those who pos- 
sessed christian slaves canie with them, and joined the French-' 
men ; when the v. hole body marched off for tlie interior of the 
eonntry, at which i esided the families of their respectives owners. 
This journey was to the Europeans toilsome in the extreme : 
tîiey W'tïe dying with hunger and thirst, by which they experi- ' 
eiiced such paiîi, on moving the tongue, that they were afraid to 
ask the simplest question. Being forced to follow the steps of 
tlie camels, whose pace was hastened, they were exhausted by 
fatigue ; and to avoid being surprised, they made several counter 
marches, in consequence of \vhich they were a fortnight in mak- 
ing a joui ney which was generally performed in live days. 
After climbing mountams of a prodigious height, covered with 
small greyish flints as sharp as those of muskets, they descended . 
into a sandy plain, interspersed with thistles, and here the ca- 
valcade rested. M. de Brisson having walked till his feet were 
excoriated, could proceed no farther; on which his master made 
Mm get up behind him on a camel, whose rough movements 
caused him to experience insupportable pain. Bemg naked, and 
liavmg no means of preventing the friction of the camel's hair, 
he was soon so chafed, that his blood ran down the camel's sides. 
This was a sight vvlijch afforded much amusement to his master; 
and the better to enjoy it, he pressed the camel to a quicker pace. 
At length M. de Brisson, no longer able to endure the torture, 
threw himself down on tlie sand, and experienced no other iuh 
jury than a few scratches froin the thorny thistles. 
Towards evening they met their guide and halted. M. de 
B]isson hemz no lon^ier able to move, and sutferino; all the hor- 
Fors of starvation, threw himself behind a bush and implored 
death; but they soon roughly pulled him from his retreat to make 
him unload the camels. Being, hov*'ever, tired of his life-, he 
made some resistance, and knocked down the Moor who dis- 
turbed him, on which the latter ran off and fetched his master, 
who [issined his captive that he had nothing to fear. This, and 
many other irtstances of a similar nature, prove that the Moovs 
